Attorneys Tuesday gave closing arguments in the trial of former Orange County Assessor Webster Guillory, who faces two misdemeanor counts of falsifying election paperwork. Jury deliberations will continue Wednesday.

ByTRACY WOOD |December 3, 2013

ByTRACY WOOD |December 2, 2013

With opening arguments set to begin in the case against two former Fullerton police officers in the beating of transient Kelly Thomas, key players compare it to the watershed case against Los Angeles officers accused of beating Rodney King.

Judge David O Carter this week demonstrated real leadership on combating homelessness by getting out into the field and challenging county officials to focus public resources on meeting immediate needs of riverbed residents. Yet will this rare focus last? Could receivership of federal and state funds coming into the County of Orange be on the horizon?

Rashad Al-Dabbagh, who lives in Anaheim and is the founder/director of the Arab American Civic Council, criticizes a decision last week by the U.S. Census Bureau that the 2020 Census would not include a new “Middle Eastern or North African” category in its race and ethnicity data collection for the 2020 Census.

Orange County supervisors step up their attack on public comment at their regular public meetings by pushing taxpayers to the end of their meeting agenda. The change means offering public comment to county supervisors will take hours of waiting.